New Music Friday ft. Shallow Side, Silent Theory, and Saving Abel

Shallow Side: “You’re The Reason”

Silent Theory: “What Are The Odds”

Saving Abel: “Baptize Me”

Scotty Austin: The King of Rock Tour 2023

Scotty Austin, formerly of Saving Abel, is taking The King of Rock Tour across the U.S. for much of 2023. He will be playing with several different bands, hitting festivals, jumping on a date of the Revival Tour with Rehab, and even doing a TV show recording in March!

For more info, visit scottyaustinofficial.com. Tickets available through the venues’ sites. I will update this list if/when more dates are announced.

  • 1/26 – Ft. Walton Beach, FL – The Sound Cafe
  • 1/28 – Clearwater, FL – OCC Roadhouse
  • 2/2 – Owensboro, KY – Milligan’s Bar
  • 2/9 – Seattle, WA – Funhouse
  • 2/10 – Hayden, ID – Razzles
  • 2/11 – Lava Hot Springs, ID – Blue Moon Bar & Grill w/White Trash Romeo
  • 2/12 – Salt Lake City, UT – Liquid Joe’s
  • 2/17 – Angola, IN – Eclectic Room w/Saints Among Us
  • 3/1-3/12 – Tour w/Flaw and Shallow Side
  • 3/30 – TV show recording
  • 4/1 – Sturgis, SD – Kickstands
  • 4/14 – Columbus, MS – Muddy Waters w/Rehab
  • 4/15 – Memphis, TN – Rockhouse Live w/Voxx
  • 4/22 – Fort Smith, AR – The Majestic w/Pump 5
  • 4/23 – San Angelo, TX – The Deadhorse w/Pump 5
  • 4/28 – Warrensburg, MO – Bodies w/Pump 5
  • 4/29 – Omaha, NE – Dream on the Green w/Pump 5
  • 5/4 – Chicago, IL – The Cubby Bear w/Citrus Orange
  • 5/5 – Genoa City, WI – 2 Brothers Bar w/Citrus Orange
  • 5/6 – Battle Creek, MI – Music Factory w/Citrus Orange
  • 5/7 – Kaukauna, WI – Maloney’s w/Citrus Orange
  • 5/10 – Buffalo, NY – Stamps the Bar w/Wild Planes
  • 5/11 – Teaneck, NJ – Debonair Music Hall w/Look Back Luna
  • 5/12 – Hallam, PA – Tourist Inn w/Look Back Luna
  • 5/13 – Hanover, PA – Rock on the Hill Festival w/Trapt, Sponge, & Flaw
  • 5/18 – Lawton, OK – Red Dirt Reloaded
  • 5/19 – San Antonio, TX – Fitzgerald’s
  • 5/25 – Baxter Springs, KS – Bricks & Brews w/Saints Among Us
  • 5/26 – Holladay, TN – Keeper of the Flame w/Saints Among Us
  • 5/27 – St. Louis, MO – The Attic Music Bar w/Saints Among Us
  • 5/28 – Madison, WI – BratFest
  • 6/8 – Unity, WI – Monster Hall Music Fest
  • 6/10 – Cave in Rock, IL – Hogrock
  • 6/14-7/6 – Revival Tour w/Rehab and Framing the Red
  • 7/7, 7/8 – Branson, MO – Branson Star Theater w/Saint Tragedy
  • 7/13 – Bloomington, IL – Nightshop w/The Lion Within (New date!)
  • 7/14 – Kaukauna, WI – Farm Stock Biker Bash w/The Lion Within
  • 7/15 – Lake City, MI – Tiki Craft Festival w/The Lion Within
  • 7/22 – Springville, IN – ABATE of Indiana w/Bobaflex
  • 7/23 – Hazel Green, WI – Sandy Hook Tavern w/Perfectly Still
  • 8/2, 8/6 – Sturgis, SD – Kickstands Campground, Sturgis Bike Rally
  • 8/12 – Minneapolis, MN – The Cabooze w/Embers Rise
  • 8/21-9/1 – Carnival Valor Cruise w/Big Smo and more
  • 9/15 – Stroudsburg, PA – Sherman Theater
  • 9/16 – Oakmont, PA – Oaks Theater
  • 9/23 – Mansfield, TX – Fat Daddy’s w/Dark Below
  • 9/28 – Orangevale, CA – The Boardwalk
  • 9/29 – San Francisco, CA – Bricks & Mortar Music Hall
  • 10/6 – Chickasha, OK – Legends Pub w/Gravel Switch
  • 10/7 – Kansas City, KS – Vivo w/Gravel Switch
  • 10/13 – Natchez, MS – Locust Alley w/Gravel Switch
  • 10/14 – Columbus, MS – Rocktoberfest w/Shallow Side
  • 10/19 – Westland, MI – Token Lounge w/Saints Among Us
  • 10/21 – Appleton, WI – BreastFest
  • 11/4 – Hallam, PA – Tourist Inn w/Wild Planes
  • 11/11 – Holladay, TN – Keeper of the Flame w/Below 7
  • 12/1 – Columbia, SC – The Venue w/Bear Within Us
  • 12/16 – Frenchtown, NJ – Artie’s Bar & Grill

My Top 30 Songs of 2022

There were some bangers released this year! This list doesn’t even begin to encompass all the great songs released over the past twelve months, I’m sure, but these were 30 of the tracks, in no particular order, that stood out to me and were in heavy rotation on my playlists.

Alter Bridge: “Sin After Sin”

Kissing Candice: “South Circle”

Kissing Candice: “see/\saw”

Mac Saturn: “Diamonds”

Call of Sirens: “Kenopsia”

The Funeral Portrait: “Voodoo Doll”

Dark Divine: “Circles”

Lovely Machine: “Picture Frame”

The Veer Union: “Just Pretend (Acoustic)”

Awesome Ray Ray: “Last Desperado”

Silent Theory: “So Far, So Good”

CARBONSTONE: “Scream”

MONOWHALES: “CTRL^^^”

Dark Summer: “In My Heart”

Devils Envy: “Lone Wolf”

Amerakin Overdose: “Agastopia”

A Killer’s Confession: “The Boys”

Modern Mimes: “Down and Dead”

Saliva: “Crows”

Stone Horses: “When I Get Paid”

Shallow Side: “The Worst Kind”

Psyclon Nine: “Money and Sex and Death”

Stone Harvest: “All The Lies”

Death Valley High: “Pretty Graves”

Nickelback: “High Time”

Self Deception: “Psycho”

Stain the Canvas: “Puppet”

Adelitas Way/New Medicine: “Up”

Bad Omens: “Like a Villain”

Shinedown: “The Saints of Violence and Innuendo”

Throwback Thursday: “Try To Fight It” by Shallow Side

Had to share this throwback from my Alabama boys! It was one of the first songs I heard by them, and I specifically remember buying the CD at a show where they opened for the Georgia-based Almost Kings. Now Shallow Side is blazing a path that can’t be stopped and I’m so proud. Lol.

New Music (5/27 — 6/2)

Rammstein: “Ausländer”

Kiss Kiss Bang: “Hearts On Fire”

Our Mirage: “Different Eyes”

Upon A Burning Body: “All Pride, No Pain”

Vitja: “Back”

Coheed and Cambria: “The Pavilion (A Long Way Back)”

Papa Roach: “Not The Only One”

Texas Hippie Coalition: “Moonshine”

Aesthetic Perfection ft. Richard Kruspe: “Gods & Gold”

Phantogram: “Into Happiness”

Blackbriar ft. Ulli Perhonen: “Snow White and Rose Red”

3Teeth: “Affluenza”

Cubanate: “Vortex”

Destruction: “Born To Perish”

Scott Stapp: “Face of the Sun”

Kryptos: “Afterburner”

Destrage: “Hey, Stranger!”

Vulture: “Murderous Militia”

The Amblers: “Ratty Old Mo'”

Machine Gun Kelly: “El Diablo”

Shallow Side: “Sound the Alarm”

Osatia: “Lose My Number”

Demons & Wizards: “The Gunslinger”

Synlakross: “Fatal Frame”

Keepsake ft. Alex Tovell: “Grey”

Violent New Breed ft. Howard Jones: “Bury Me”

Sublime With Rome: “Light On”

Car Bomb: “Dissect Yourself”

He Is Legend: “Burn All Your Rock Records”

Firespawn: “The Gallows End”

War of Ages: “Sulphur and Salt”

Bones UK: “Filthy Freaks”

Bloom: “Cold”

Omnimar: “Humans”

Mayday Parade: “Looks Red, Tastes Blue”

Nasty Cherry: “What Do You Like In Me”

Isotopes: “I Never Should Have Let You In”

New Music (2/18 — 2/24)

Hot Pink Satan: “Breathe”

As Within, So Without: “Departure”

Red Dragon Cartel: “Speedbag”

Shallow Side: “Sound the Alarm”

Mark Morton ft. Myles Kennedy: “Save Defiance”

Buckcherry: “Bent”

Forth: “On Top of the World”

Whitechapel: “When a Demon Defiles a Witch”

Sleepkillers: “So Low”

Inter Arma: “Stillness”

Tora Tora: “Son of a Prodigal Son”

Radkey: “P.A.W.”

Vale of Pnath: “Accursed”

Devin Townsend: “Genesis”

Mike Shinoda: “Prove You Wrong”

Another Day Dawns: “Psycho”

Overkill: “Welcome to the Garden State”

Organosyde: “Organosydic Holocaust”

Backyard Babies: “44 Undead”

Mötley Crüe ft. Machine Gun Kelly: “The Dirt (Est. 1981)”

The Damned Things: “Cells”

Enforcer: “Die For The Devil”

Dayshell: “Pressure”

The Picturebooks: “The Hands of Time”